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Originally Posted by Terry
How does one know if fellow Christians and Christian assemblies are denominational or not, if you don't interact with them. Does it even matter? Shouldn't our receiving be according to God's receiving and not according to where so and so meets?
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This is as good a point to look at as any.
The real answer relating to "denominationalism" is found when you try to answer the question in the second sentence I quoted above.
"Does it even matter?"
I have to believe that the best answer is "probably not."
And concerning the whole issue of denominationalism. Is this something actually spoken against by Jesus, Paul, or any of the scripture, or is it a strawman created by Lee to 1) give him something to generically gripe at the rest of Christianity about, and 2) give his followers a sense of superiority.
The problem that I keep coming up with is that "denominations" are branded as anti-scriptural by Lee, but he almost exclusively uses 1 Corinthians 1 - 4 to establish it. But when I read those, it seems that denominations (despite having a name) are less about who they are following than the LRC is about following Lee (and supposedly Nee). They just wrap their following in spiritual-sounding mumbo jumbo, like "minister of the age," and declare their actual following of a man OK while others who are not specifically following any man are not OK.
But when I read 1 Corinthians, it looks to me like the denigration of other Christians by Lee and the LRC is more like what Paul was talking about than the amicable differences that mostly exist in Christianity.
BTW. I despise using "Christianity" to refer to everyone outside the LRC. The LRC is part of them. This is another lie perpetrated by Lee and his unspiritual legacy. If the LRC is actually outside of Christianity, then the problem is with them and not Christianity. They are proud of how separate they are from all those people that they claim to be in unity with.
Go figure.